Only 34 cases of human rabies have been reported since 1980, 19 of them attributed to bats.

In the USA, most cases of human rabies are related to exposure to bats.

Widespread vaccination of pets has reduced human rabies in the United States to a minuscule level.

The disease centers lists 25 domestic cases of human rabies from 1981 through 1998, 22 of which came from a variant of the virus found only in bats.

Despite this prevalence, the CDC attributes all recorded cases of human rabies from 1990-2002 to dogs or bats.

"With the virtual disappearance of dog rabies in this country, human rabies virtually disappeared," Dr. Baer said.

Sinovac is developing vaccines for enterovirus 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis, and human rabies.

This is my standard reply about rabies in India: India has the highest incidence of human rabies in the world.

Such a strategy of oral immunization of foxes in Europe has already achieved substantial reductions in the incidence of human rabies.

He also said that research on other viruses that cause respiratory disease was lagging and the centers were strapped to help investigate a recent case of human rabies.